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New Strategies for Climate & Biodiversity
Havant Borough Council has just released their new strategies for Climate & Biodiversity, you can read them here |
Climate and Biodiversity Photo Competition
To celebrate the launch, Havant Borough Council is teaming up with The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre to launch our public photography competition. They would like your snaps snaps covering our local landscape and environment.
Whether they’re of a luscious landscape, wonderful wildlife or fantastic flowers, as long as they are in the borough of Havant, please send them in.
Shortlisted entries will form part of a public exhibition at The Spring from 19th March to 16th May with winners chosen by a judging panel.
More details can be found here |
Havant Borough Big Green Week
Date: 7th – 15th June
The national Great Big Green Week will be in June this year, and the theme is Swap Together for Good. Its a great chance to organise events, tell the community what you are doing and make a difference.
The green week is just like last year – swapping goods, stories, skills, ideas or making changes in your lifestyle. This year, we’re asked to emphasise the ‘good’ your events do. We all know life can be cleaner, healthier and more cooperative if we make some swaps.
More details soon but do put the dates in your diaries and if you are involved with any local groups, please persuade them to think about something you could organise during the week.
We also want to get a meeting together to plan ideas and it would be wonderful to have more people involved.
If you’d like to know about the meetings, please email havclimate@gmail.com |
Heathrow Runway Expansion
In the news Rachel Reeves plans to expand airports is really troubling. A new report has said that the Heathrow expansion, combined with developments at Gatwick and Luton may also receive backing, it will wipe out the benefit from the government’s clean power plan within just five years of operation.
Will you ask your MP how expanding airports can be compatible with our climate targets? |
Carbon Copy are releasing their new year-round action!
Carbon Copy has launched a new collaborative campaign supported by three high-profile climate and nature focused organisations: WWF-UK, The Carbon Literacy Project and Climate Emergency UK.
25 Big Local Actions in 2025 aims to boost hope, inspiration and place-based action to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
Throughout 2025, the charity will highlight 25 different ways that people can take together, at work or in their community, to make a bigger positive impact in the place where they live.
Every two weeks, the campaign will focus on one of the Big Local Actions, with informative web content, social media posts, PR and a podcast episode. Find out more here |
Grow Wild Community Programme
Applications to the Kew Gardens 2025 Grow Wild Community Programme are now open. The Programme supports groups and organisations to transform urban spaces for the benefit of people and wildlife, by planting and championing UK native plants or fungi.
The opportunity is more than just a grant, Grow Wild is seeking groups who will actively engage with the programme, including attending online knowledge sharing and peer support sessions.
Please apply by 3pm on Thursday 13th February, more details can be found here |
Show The Love 2025 – brand new comms pack available!
Show The Love is about using the green heart logo to start conversations about the things we love. It will launch for Valentine’s Day and run all year round.
The Climate Coalition Secretariat have prepared a brand new comms pack you can download the new comms pack here
They will also be launching a new ‘hero film’, a community kit for green heart crafts a conversation guide and a new digital action encouraging us to post pictures of hearts at their most loved places and spaces, which we will turn into a giant collaborative piece of art. |
Have your say on local flood risk
We have been contacted by a research team who are looking into the impact of sea level rises in three different countries, the UK the Netherlands and Italy. In the UK they are focusing particularly on Portsmouth and the surrounding area.
They team are in the Portsmouth area at the moment, and will be around until the middle of February. They are looking for local people to interview. The interviews will take about 30 minutes and responses are anonymous.
If you would like to take part contact iona.bontenbal@lut.fi or you can phone her colleague Quivine on +358 406603265 |
The Repair & Reuse Declaration
Restart is asking all of us to persuade the government to make repair more affordable, expand the UK’s Right to Repair, introduce a repair index, bring in targets for reuse and repair and support a new generation of repairers.
To find out more visit their website here |
Wetlands Pathfinder
Date: Friday 7th February
Time: 11.30am to 12.30pm
Location: Tesco’s Community Space (behind the tills at Tesco Extra), Fratton Way, PO4 8FD
Portsmouth Friends of the Earth are inviting us to a short talk by Southern Water Clean Rivers and Seas Team concerning their wetlands pathfinder.
They have set up a number of pathfinders to research different ways of stopping or slowing the flow of rainwater into our combined sewers most, but not all, are nature-based (e.g. there is one looking at the impact of slow release water butts on the Isle of Wight). This talk will be about their wetlands pathfinder.
The location behind Tesco Extra is fully accessible and has a large car park situated near to Fratton train station. |
A visit for our members to Havant Thicket Reservoir
Date: Thursday 8th May
Would you like to see the progress made so far at the havant thicket reservoir? Portsmouth Water have offered to set up a morning visit just for our members.
If you’d like to come along and join us, please let us know now via email at havclimate@gmail.com |
Future Dates
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Havant Climate Alliance Meeting
Date: Monday 3rd Feburary
Time: 9.30 am
If you would like a link to the meeting, please let us know via email at havclimate@gmail.com |
Friends of the Earth Online Workshops
FOE is organising more online workshops during the month of February to support campaigners.
Planet over Profit: February webinar
Date: Wednesday 12th February
Time: 7pm – 8.15pm
The campaign to hold UK companies accountable for the environmental and human rights impacts of their global supply chains.
Find out more here
AI tools to help your local campaigning: surgery Session
Date: Tuesday 18th February
Time: 7pm – 8pm
An opportunity to find out how artificial intelligence can aid your community campaigning.
Find out more here |
What is the climate story in 2025?
Date: Tuesday 11th February
Time: 12.00am – 1pm
Join Climate Outreach, Green Alliance and others to hear about the climate communication challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.
We’ll present our new research based on interviews with 20 leading thinkers from academia, business, campaigning and journalism: What do they think 2025 has in store, and who needs to do what to keep momentum behind a positive climate story for all?
Speakers:
– Nameerah Hameed, Advocacy Manager, Climate Outreach
– Dr Chris Pollard, Senior Researcher, Climate Outreach
– Chris Venables, Director of Politics, Green Alliance
Register here |
The Pallant Open Day
Date: Saturday 15th February
Time: 10am to 1pm |
Havant FOE Finances
We definitely need funds if we are to get anything done, like organising the Green Week. Please do renew your membership. A suggested amount is £10 but give more or less, depending on what you can afford.
Please make Online payments made payable to:
Name: Havant FoE or HAVANT FRIENDS OF THE EARTH
Sort Code: 08-92-99
Account Code: 65094750
Reference: Please add at least your surname, ideally forename or initials too |
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